May 15 (UPI) -- HBO has announced that the name of its streaming service is changing back from Max to HBO Max this summer. HBO Max is what the platform was known as when it launched in 2020, but the HBO portion of the name was dropped in 2023 as its parent company sought to give it its own identity.

HBO is synonymous with great television -- and now HBO Max, the re-rechristened name of Warner Bros. Discovery's linchpin streaming service, is synonymous with major corporate reversals. There is little doubt about that,

Warner Bros. Discovery's (WBD) streaming service Max will be called HBO Max starting this summer, bringing back a name that WBD curiously ditched a couple of years ago.

Home Box Office is a legend in American television, one of the industry's most famed and prestigious brands. So it was a mystery when its new owners renamed it "Max"-a name so generic and bland it could apply to almost anything.